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Singleton: System-Wide Page Deduplication in Virtual Environments

April 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors investigate memory-management in hypervisors and propose Singleton, a KVM-based system-wide page de-duplication solution to increase memory usage efficiency. They address the problem...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Practical Scrubbing: Getting to the Bad Sector at the Right Time

April 15, 2012 12:00am PDT

Latent Sector Errors (LSEs) are a common hard disk failure mode, where disk sectors become inaccessible while the rest of the disk remains unaffected. To protect against LSEs, commercial storage...

Provided by: University of Toledo

Q&A

Ways to free up 12 GB from C: ?

April 13, 2012 2:23pm PDT

Well the easiest way would be to Compress the HDD that you are copying to and remove all of the Temp Files like the Page File System restore Points and so on. Also look in the Windows Folder and...

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FlashTier: A Lightweight, Consistent and Durable Storage Cache

April 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

The availability of high-speed solid-state storage has introduced a new tier into the storage hierarchy. Low-latency and high-IOPS Solid-State Drives (SSDs) cache data in front of high-capacity...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Efficient Virtual Machine Scheduling Exploiting VCPU Characteristics

April 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

Xen supports CPU-intensive domains fairly well, however, it has drawback for supporting I/O domains because I/O domain requires low latency data processing. In this paper, the authors propose a...

Provided by: Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

Discussion Threads

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: How it works on the client side

April 9, 2012 10:38am PDT

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: How it works on the client side article root microsoft vision on system and data We often have wondered why Microsoft did system and data on 1 (one) disk on the first...

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Connectivity of Large Wireless Networks Under a Generic Connection Model

April 6, 2012 12:00am PDT

Connectivity is one of the most fundamental properties of wireless multi-hop networks. A network is said to be connected if there is a path between any pair of nodes. Extensive research has been...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Blog Post

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: How it works on the client side

April 5, 2012 6:00am PDT

Derek Schauland looks at the new feature called Storage Spaces in Windows 8 and shows you some of the options for setup and management.

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Q&A

Should Acer Aspire T135 work with a big hard disk?

April 5, 2012 12:32am PDT

Should Acer Aspire T135 work with a big hard disk? I have a brand-new Western Digital 1.5TB drive. The Acer Aspire T135 XP Home system won't detect it if it connects to the SATA port. However...

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How to create a DOS bootable USB pendrive?

April 3, 2012 11:18pm PDT

How to create a DOS bootable USB pendrive? I want to create a bootable USB stick with DOS so that I can update the BIOS of one of my computers. I search around I can only find those using Linux...

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Blog Post

Videos: Floppy drives play dance music and geeky theme songs

April 3, 2012 9:21am PDT

What does it sound like to make music with floppy drives? Watch these YouTube videos of the song What Is Love, the Star Trek NextGen theme, and more to find out.

Q&A

Windows restarting

April 3, 2012 7:42am PDT

Windows restarting Hey I ran an anti virus scan on saturday and i allowed my computer to shut down as it completed, now yesterday i switched my computer on as usual but my desktop icons and...

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How does one inject a registry backup to start a crashed Win7 OS

April 3, 2012 2:44am PDT

How does one inject a registry backup to start a crashed Win7 OS As a Trojan can wreck the registry it makes sense to export the registry prior to installing any new software. However, if your...

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Data Distribution and Improving Disk Performance for Faster Memory Access

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The layout of traditional disks is optimized for file systems with large sequential access. For these sequential workloads, cost of seeks and rotational latencies are amortized on the transfer of...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)

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Is Preventing Fragmentation Needed in Today's Environment?

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Today the number of files stored on volumes is much greater than in times past. The increase in the number of files not only necessitates larger storage capacities but, due to inherent...

Provided by: Condusiv Technologies

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Designing a Data Protection Strategy with HP Lefthand, StoreOnce and Tape

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Learn how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This paper will also put that solution into context with the rest of a...

Provided by: HP and Intel®

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Best Practices for using Diskeeper®/V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

As high-performing storage solutions based on block protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system;...

Provided by: Condusiv Technologies

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Block Link File System with Fast Writing After Editing for Large-Sized Multimedia Files

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors propose BLFS (Block Link File System) supporting fast editing/writing for large-sized multimedia files. In the BLFS, when large-scale multimedia files are stored and edited, there is...

Provided by: Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

To defrag external fragmentation takes an operating system utility, not a SQL Server utility. One of the most popular tools for defragmenting SQL Server database files is a tool from Condusiv...

Provided by: Condusiv Technologies

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V-locity 3®: Virtual Optimization Realized

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

While virtualization is tasked to optimize storage efficiency, there has been nothing in place to optimize the NTFS file system's I/O efficiency. As a consequence, I/O bottlenecks develop rapidly...

Provided by: Condusiv Technologies